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OK on the weapons charges for Ryan and Ammon, I can understand that. I can't recall ever seeing them with a firearm in any of their staged TV spots.

Conspiracy charge? Why were they only charged with conspiracy to prevent federal workers from performing their jobs? Whether or not that is what the occupiers intended, that is what happened.

That they did not intend to disrupt operations is a fucking lie. Wasn't part of their defense an obscure (and likely misinterpreted) notion that if they occupied the land long enough control would revert to them? That seems to be predicated on the fact that the Federal Government is not making use of the land. If they allowed Federal employees, i.e. agents of the Federal Government, onto the premise the Federal Government IS making use of the land. Hence it was critical to their goals that they kept Federal employees off the refuge.

The Federal prosecutors appear to have fucked this up by not charging them correctly.

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The best way to make America great is to lower the standards!

Let's remember this next time a black lives matter protest causes property damage and white people clutch their pearls claiming that's not how you properly protest.

Soros funded propaganda.

__________________What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. ... The origin of myths is explained in this way.

I'm not remotely conversant with the legal issues, but it sounds like there may actually be justifiable reasoning behind this decision (I'm sure Matlock or Chuck or one of our other lawyers can elucidate further); preliminary analysis appears to suggest the prosecution committed at least six major Brady violations (I don't really understand what this means and don't currently have time to research further, but it sounds bad). From a political standpoint, though, it's a highly unfortunate outcome. It'll be worth reading the comments, too; I'm sure Adam will have further insightful analysis as more facts come in.

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“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith